Dynamical Grammar

Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change

Peter W. Culicover and Andrzej Nowak

Represents a significant advance in computational modelling of language

Provides new insights on language acquisition, linguistic change, and the nature of grammar

Dynamical Grammar

Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change

Peter W. Culicover and Andrzej Nowak

Description

Dynamical Grammar explores the consequences for language acquisition, language evolution, and linguistic theory of taking the underlying architecture of the language faculty to be that of a complex adaptive dynamical system. It contains the first results of a new and complex model of language acquisition which the authors have developed to measure how far language input is reflected in language output and thereby get a better idea of just how far the human language faculty is hard-wired.

Dynamical Grammar

Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change

Peter W. Culicover and Andrzej Nowak

Author Information

Peter W. Culicover is currently the Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University. His current research is concerned with the architecture of the language faculty and its role in the dynamical aspects of language. Andrzej Nowak is Associate Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests are modeling and computer simulation of social processes.